Posted by Spartanicus on 11/04/98 11:24

Charles Sweeney <me@charlessweeney.com> wrote:

>> No, it can't. But a text only UA/speech UA/Radio/etc. can never
>> 'show' the logo either. One useful treatment is to use the company
>> name and the strapline in such circumstances.
>>
>> "Bodgit Bros IT - Making computers make cents."
>
>But that doesn't tell me there's an image there.

It should, graphical browsers typically do this by drawing an inset
border around the replacement content.

On the issue of including "logo" in the alt content, it can make sense
to do so if there truly is a logo in the graphic. Note that alt content
isn't just for blind people, it should also work for people who use
graphical browsers with image loading off, they may want to selectively
retrieve images, thus they should be made aware of the fact that the
graphic contains a logo.

If it's just an image of text then it should be left to the UA to
indicate that content replacement has taken place.

If the graphic is a mixture of a logo and text then the alt content
construct should probably be something like: "Bodgit Bros IT - Making
computers make cents. [logo]"

>Alternatively, if an image is meaningless the user agent should ignore
>it if it doesn't have alt text, without needing to use the silly alt="".

This results from a non logical spec rule, given the spec rule it makes
more sense for a UA to generate a replacement text like "image" in the
absence of the alt attribute than not to.

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Spartanicus

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